“The demand for PCs packing low power consumption and solid performance
is hardly in decline. Intel struck big time with their Atom platform.
However, although it had solid CPU power, sufficient for most everyday
office tasks, the graphics system wasn’t truly able to provide full
multimedia enjoyment. The “inheritor” in the form of Nvidia’s ION
platform rectified this drawback, but CPU performance remained the same,
since the very heart of the system was still based on Intel’s Atom. More
demanding users, who didn’t find Atom’s performance satisfactory, had to
turn to other solutions with better performance, but also higher
consumption. One of those was based on AMD’s well-known 785G chipset,
which brought good performance and an excellent integrated DirectX 10
graphics card…”